Excerpt: Rick Owens. Spring ready-to-Wear 2025 - Paris Fashion Week

 

"With the structural backdrop, once again, being Rick Owens stalwart Palais de Tokyo monolith stage, a building constructed in 1937 and designed in its classic Art Deco style.  As noted with my Spring 2025 menswear review, that the temple impression of Owens immortalization through the seemingly longevity of structure, seems to be now imprinted onto the once Los Angeles resident psyche.  And for all the Fashion Weeks over the years held in September, Owens has mostly staged his runway presentations within the Palais de Tokyo's outdoor tomb like setting.  And it nearly didn't occur, due to the persistent rain.  Alas, with a break in the weather Owens 'Babylonic' Hollywood grandeur was able to take place.  

In all of its similarity to Owens showpiece in June of this year, as a grand production with its running theme which occurred from his pandemic 2020 collections at Libo beach, Venice, that being of an apocalyptic vision..."

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Full review:  chiasmusmagazine.blogspot.com/2024/09/rick-owens-spring-ready-to-wear-2025.html

(A.Glass 2024)